"ciel" wrote in message . uk...
Hi All

I am about to transport 4x 12" Koi approx 1-11/2 hours in a car.

Funny you should mention. Don't you mean, 1 to 1-1/2 hours, not just
over 11 hours? [/humour] When TMI tried to blow up, my [ex]wife ran
off upstate. She came back with her cousin's Oscar in a cooler as a
peace offering. She made one of the kids sit with the cooler in their
lap the whole way back, blowing into the bucket with a piece of hose
and an airstone. Sheesh.
IIR, from CPR training, the air you breathe out has practically just
as much oxygen as what you breathe in, within about 1/4 of the
available oxygen, so that was okay. Get an aquarium pump and a plug in
inverter if you need to pump air. Breathing it in makes for bad acidic
water, however.

The other tip on moving fish is to use plastic trash cans [cheap] and
be sure they are very full and well covered to prevent sloshing. Yes,
sounds wrong, but it is good physics and works. Found this in
rec.aquariums years ago.

"Have a good trip"
--
Crashj